Samantha Dick

A prominent anti-violence campaigner has called on the Northern Territory government to involve community elders in discussions about strategies to quell violent unrest beyond the snap curfew.  

The Northern Territory's police minister is set to announce this morning whether a 72-hour snap curfew in Alice Springs will be extended.

Alice Springs community leaders are pushing for more accountability from those tasked with addressing the drivers of crime, as residents wake after their first night under curfew conditions. 

Northern Territory police have found human remains belonging to a missing 12-year-old girl who is suspected to have been taken by a crocodile in a remote NT creek. 

The NT coroner has recommended the territory's education department ensure all schools are trained to respond when a student discloses suicidal thoughts, following her inquiry into the death of a Darwin teenager.

Australia's banking watchdog has publicly sanctioned Westpac over the bank's sudden branch closure in the isolated Northern Territory town of Tennant Creek. 

In a jurisdiction with some of the highest reoffending rates in Australia, a rehabilitation service helping former prisoners conquer addiction is being evicted to make way for a new women's prison.  

A string of racist awards shared by members of Northern Territory Police's elite police unit have surfaced during a coronial inquest into the police shooting death of Kumanjayi Walker.

Young Territorians including Darwin rapper J-MILLA have voiced concerns over a proposed bill that would allow the NT police commissioner to impose snap curfews. 

Australia's largest Aboriginal legal service and the NT children's commissioner say they are "extremely concerned" by the NT government's move to introduce legislation simplifying the process for imposing curfews, following a three-week youth curfew in Alice Springs. 

The Bureau of Meteorology warned level G4 (severe) geomagnetic storm conditions were expected to arrive at Earth from about 8pm AEST on Friday.

Police have arrested six people amid violent unrest in Daly River, where houses have been set on fire and residents say they have been terrorised by a criminal gang. 

Chief Minister Eva Lawler says the nine-year agreement with Tamboran Resources will provide the NT with 40 terajoules of gas per day, starting next year.

A construction worker operated heavy machinery without authorisation twice in the weeks before his death at a remote Northern Territory work site, a court has heard.

Northern Territory police have arrested four boys, including two aged 11, over an alleged daylight carjacking in Darwin that left a nurse traumatised. 

A growing number of Aboriginal people are being struck and killed on Northern Territory roads. Indigenous leaders are sounding the alarm.

The NT chief minister says the youth curfew in Alice Springs has been a "circuit breaker", leading to a reduction in crime and an increase in the number of families asking for support.

A 37-year-old woman is dead after drowning while swimming in a lagoon at the Darwin Waterfront Precinct.

An Aboriginal elder who recently worked for NT Police is among a group of Aboriginal Territorians calling for more to be done to address racism within the force.

A man whose body was found near a major highway in the Northern Territory outback likely died after falling from a moving vehicle while intoxicated, NT Police says.

Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney has defended the federal government's commitment to the troubled town of Alice Springs, ahead of a planned visit to the Northern Territory by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

Armed with edged weapons, the offenders allegedly demanded money, cigarettes and alcohol, with one offender holding a knife to the female victim's throat.

Three youths who stole a Darwin couple's car at knifepoint on Friday night were later carjacked by a separate pair of teens within the hour, Northern Territory Police allege. 

The Northern Territory government has promised to gradually phase out middle schools in response to a sweeping review of the territory's secondary school system. 

Up to 200 domestic violence order applications are yet to be scheduled in Northern Territory courts due to issues plaguing NT Police's new data system, according to the police union president.